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Posts from 2020

  • The Legacy of Orkney for Child Protection
    1st March 2021
  • Looking to capture practices of intimacy in times of social distancing: Mixed-methods research on singles in Japan
    3rd February 2021
  • Children’s hearing system fails to address child sexual exploitation
    24th November 2020
  • Inclusion of parents and LGBTQ youth in teen dating violence research and prevention programs: A review of current research
    16th November 2020
  • South Asian child sexual abuse – what we need to know
    4th November 2020
  • A blog conversation between Helen Moewaka Barnes and Rosalind Edwards: indigenous knowledges and intersectionality
    27th October 2020
  • Family conversations online and abroad during Covid-19: the differences between Chinese Families with daughter and with son
    21st October 2020
  • In the Shadow of a Pandemic: Harare’s Street Youth Experience COVID-19
    3rd August 2020
  • ‘Doing friendship’ at a distance
    27th July 2020
  • Why we need to listen to families in fuel poverty about smart meters?
    20th July 2020
  • Educating Children During and After Covid-19, Opportunity for Change?
    13th July 2020
  • Family planning DURING COVID-19: A baby ‘bust’, not ‘boom’
    6th July 2020
  • Listening to young people during Covid-19 challenges common adult assumptions about their peer relationships
    29th June 2020
  • Birth and beyond in a pandemic: Findings from a project with mothers in the England lockdown of spring 2020
    23rd June 2020
  • COVID: Outside Our Door
    22nd June 2020
  • The vicious circle of familism in housing and care during Covid-19 in Greece
    15th June 2020
  • Capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the family relationships of young fathers
    4th June 2020
  • Mothers who allege abuse more likely to lose custody of their children
    1st June 2020
  • Digital by default: the new normal of family life under COVID-19
    19th May 2020
  • The social life of self-harm, in lockdown
    18th May 2020
  • Introducing The Centre for Transformative Change: Educational and Life Transitions (TCELT) blog
    18th May 2020
  • Locking Down or Breaking Up: Newly Cohabitating Couples in the Time of Coronavirus
    15th May 2020
  • Stay-at-home measures and domestic violence amid the Covid-19 crisis
    13th May 2020
  • Research with young environmental activists in the UK: challenges and opportunities presented by COVID Lockdown to the researcher and the researched
    7th May 2020
  • Families and relationships amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: Call for blog submissions
    7th May 2020
  • The Children (Scotland) Bill – The Justice Committee’s Recommendations at Stage 1
    7th May 2020
  • COVID and ‘BIG QUAL’
    26th April 2020

Posts from 2019

  • ‘A recipe for better child participation’
    11th December 2019 9:51 am
  • Researching LGBT+ Families and Relationships in Africa
    8th October 2019 4:57 pm
  • Kindness in court: who cares?
    8th October 2019 10:50 am
  • Understanding children’s ‘accommodation’ of parental separation and divorce
    7th October 2019 10:56 am
  • Childhood sexual abuse: At the heart of problems with ACEs policy, Part 2
    19th August 2019 4:52 pm
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences: a social justice perspective
    19th August 2019 3:52 pm
  • Childhood sexual abuse: At the heart of problems with ACEs policy, Part 1
    19th August 2019 2:08 pm
  • ACEs – repackaging old problems in shiny new (Emperor’s) clothes
    1st August 2019 2:33 pm
  • Resilience is a process and opportunity, not something children have or don’t have
    6th February 2019 12:53 pm
  • ResiliencebyDesign Research Innovation Lab
    23rd January 2019 11:25 am

Posts from 2018

  • A new approach to improving youth mental public health – the TRIUMPH network
  • Making Scotland an ACE informed nation: continuing the conversation – an event summary
  • Ace Awareness, damage narratives and social justice in early years practice: personal and professional reflections
  • Bringing girls’ gender identities into children’s rights
  • Transferring ECEC to education: does it make a difference?
  • How does providing support for young families affect children’s well-being?
  • What does ‘home’ mean for children whose parents have separated?
  • Who matters, for better and for worse? Personal networks in an international perspective
  • Time to abandon prevalence studies of childhood sexual abuse?
  • In a search for competence? Children’s participation in family law proceedings
  • Children’s Participation in Decision-Making: Questioning Competence and Competencies
  • Prioritising Children’s Autonomy is Prioritising their Best Interests
  • The red flags are everywhere, but nobody can see them
  • Resilience in early years—continuing the conversation

Posts from 2017

  • How resilient do we want our children and young people to be?
  • Resilience – continuing the conversation
  • Evaluating the Bookbug programme in Scotland
  • ‘Trust me, I know exactly how you feel’: Undisclosed thoughts on researching single mums when you are one
  • Making rights real for children. What a welcome strapline for Scottish Government’s children’s policy and service reform
  • Strength and power: autistic pupils and their parents’ experiences of support in secondary school
  • Challenging settings where child sexual abuse can thrive
  • Supporting children and families in early childhood: When does community action let the Government off the hook?
  • Beyond victims and perpetrators: The hidden side of violence against women
  • Person-centred cultures in dementia care – learning to communicate ‘Beyond Words’
  • Transition, transition, successful transition: What is it anyway?
  • Buying Sex in Scotland: Understanding the motives and incentives for paying for sexual services
  • “A cup of tea and a fag”: doing family in the context of imprisonment.
  • Researching love can illuminate ongoing obstacles to the involvement of fathers
  • Research as an intervention: A case study on violence against children in Peru
  • When is it safe to disclose childhood sexual abuse?
  • Serious concerns for child protection?
  • Measuring the impact of the book-gifting programme Bookbug
  • Monitoring compliance with Article 12: Council of Europe Assessment Tool
  • Maybe he’s caring: responding to disabled women who experience domestic abuse
  • Why is it so hard to be a schoolgirl mother/mother-to-be and continue in education?

Posts from 2016

  • Silencing and disclosure in child sexual abuse
  • Intimate and family practices, generational justice, environmental justice and global inequalities
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